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My comment didn't have to do with having to be right all the time or be perfect in order to engage in conversation. It had to do with the increasing combined effects of aging and chronic health issues on my ability to remember things correctly. Anyone who has experienced this to the degree have knows how frustrating it can be.
An hour or so before I befuddled myself in a series of SSI posts, I was on the phone affirming for certain the facts of a state-issued birth certificate request for one of our daughters, when I pulled up a PDF of the hospital certificate and suddenly realized that I had confused our son's birthplace in Washington with our daughter's birthplace in Oregon. This kind of thing happens to me all the time, I just have to live with it. I increasingly have to work very hard just to keep things straight, and no matter how hard I try I still don't. It's not a matter of perfectionism, it's a matter of coherence sometimes.
Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to provide encouraging words.